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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Author: Dan Egan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0393246442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Something Spectacular
Author: Howard A. Tanner
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1628953470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the new chief of the Michigan Department of Conservation’s Fish Division in 1964, Howard A. Tanner was challenged to “do something . . . spectacular.” He met that challenge by leading the successful introduction of coho salmon into the Michigan waters of the Great Lakes. This volume illustrates how Tanner was able to accomplish this feat: from a detailed account of his personal and professional background that provided a foundation for success; the historical and contemporary context in which the Fish Division undertook this bold step to reorient the state’s fishery from commercial to sport; the challenges, such as resistance from existing government institutions and finding funding, that he and his colleagues faced; the risks they took by introducing a nonnative species; the surprises they experienced in the first season’s catch; to, finally, the success they achieved in establishing a world-renowned, biologically and financially beneficial sport fishery in the Great Lakes. Tanner provides an engaging history of successfully introducing Pacific salmon into the lakes from the perspective of an ultimate insider.
Going Full Circle
Author: Mike Link
Publisher: Lake Superior Port Cities
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780942235234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Walk along with husband-wife team Mike Link and Kate Crowley as they set off on a unique 1,555-mile, shore-hugging journey around the world's largest freshwater lake. As naturalists, travel writers and grandparents, they chronicle an epic five-month Lake Superior hike through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ontario in this account of their life-altering experience. In Going Full Circle, Mike and Kate share Lake Superior's water, shore, plants, animals and people as no one else has. Book jacket.
The Living Great Lakes
Author: Jerry Dennis
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780312331030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
Alexis Rockman
Author: Dana Friis-Hansen
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611862911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.
The Long-Shining Waters
Author: Danielle Sosin
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1571318348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →MILKWEED NATIONAL FICTION PRIZE WINNER INDIE HEARTLAND BESTSELLER ONE BOOK SOUTH DAKOTA SELECTION MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALIST MIDWEST BOOKSELLERS BOOK AWARD FINALIST Grey Rabbit, an Ojibwe woman living by Lake Superior in 1622, is a mother and wife whose dream-life has taken on fearful dimensions. As she struggles to understand “what she is shown at night,” her psyche and her world edge toward irreversible change. In 1902, Berit and Gunnar, a Norwegian fishing couple, also live on the lake. Berit is unable to conceive, and the lake anchors her isolated life and tests the limits of her endurance and spirit. And in 2000, when Nora, a seasoned bar owner, loses her job and is faced with an open-ended future, she is drawn reluctantly into a road trip around the great lake. The Long-Shining Waters is the story of these three women, separated by years and circumstance but connected across time by a shared geography: the inland sea. Rich with historical detail, each character comes vividly to life in this luminous debut novel. “Danielle Sosin has written the first great novel about Lake Superior—and its many ghosts.” —Minnesota Monthly
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The Fourth Coast
Author: Mary Blocksma
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an account of the author's five thousand mile journey along the coast of the Great Lakes, from New York to Minnesota, and includes interviews she conducted with people who live near the lakes, a listing of sites to visit, and a guide to resources for more precise travel information.
Great Lakes for Sale
Author: Dave Dempsey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0472116495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the environmental benefits and issues of the Great Lakes through a look at the commercialization, recreation, and population of the businesses and people in its surrounding areas.
